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The films of Barbra Streisand

The Academy Award-winning actress-singer-director is being honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center with its 40th annual Chaplin Award, to be presented at a gala career tribute on Monday, April 22, 2013 in New York City.

By CBSNews.com senior editor David Morgan

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A recording and Broadway star, Barbra Streisand recreated her stage triumph as Fanny Brice in the musical "Funny Girl" for the 1968 film, directed by William Wyler. The movie traces Brice's rise from vaudeville to the fabled Ziegfeld Follies, and her tempestuous romantic relationship with gambler Nicky Arnstein.

In an Oscar rarity, Streisand tied for the Academy Award with Katharine Hepburn (for "The Lion in Winter"). Streisand was also in rare company (along with Shirley Booth, Julie Andrews and Marlee Matlin) for winning a Best Actress Oscar for her film debut.

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Barbra Streisand in the musical "Hello, Dolly" (1969).

Though nominated in 1964 for a Tony Award for her star turn in "Funny Girl," Streisand lost the Tony to Carol Channing of "Hello, Dolly!" Yet Streisand ultimately won the role of matchmaker Dolly Levi in the film over Channing and other actresses being considered, including Ethel Merman, Elizabeth Taylor and Ann-Margret.

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Barbra Streisand in the musical "Hello, Dolly" (1969), directed by Gene Kelly. Though the film performed well at the box office, its extravagant cost weighed heavily on the studio.

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Barbra Streisand starred in the film of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" (1970), a romantic fantasy involving reincarnation adapted from the Alan Jay Lerner-Burton Lane show. Co-starring with Streisand were Yves Montand, Larry Blyden, Bob Newhart, Simon Oakland and Jack Nicholson.

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Herbert Ross directed Barbra Streisand and George Segal in "The Owl and the Pussycat" (1970), a comedy about an actress-prostitute who moves in with an aspiring writer. Screenwriter Buck Henry ("The Graduate") adapted the stage play by Bill Manhoff.

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Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal in the screwball comedy "What's Up, Doc?" (1972), in which a mix-up involving matching luggage brings together a musicologist, jewel thieves, spies, the mob, and a young woman for whom disaster is an ever-present companion.

A poster for the Barbra Streisand film "Up the Sandbox," in which a young wife and mother delves into an increasingly outrageous fantasy life, from African tribal rituals to terrorism. The movie was directed by Irvin Kershner (who later was director of "The Empire Strikes Back").

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Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford in the romantic drama "The Way We Were" (1973), directed by Sydney Pollack. The film told of college lovers whose relationship over the years is torn by differences in background, political upheavals and affairs. The movie also spawned a hit theme song by Marvin Hamlisch, sung by Streisand, which was her first #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100.

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In the farce "For Pete's Sake" (1974), Barbra Streisand plays a struggling Brooklyn housewife who takes out a loan from the Mafia, and gets into increasingly wild adventures in trying to pay off her debt.

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Barbra Streisand recreated her Oscar-winning role as Fanny Brice in the sequel, "Funny Lady" (1975), which continued the story of Brice and her marriage to songwriter Billy Rose.

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"A Star Is Born," the romantic tale of a young artist whose fame ascends as her lover's star falls, had already been filmed twice, in 1937 (with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March as Hollywood actors), and as a 1954 musical (with Judy Garland and James Mason).

In 1976 Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson spun a rock version, in which an aspiring singer-songwriter falls in love with a rock legend spiraling downwards due to drugs and drink.

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Kris Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand in "A Star Is Born" (1976).

Streisand shared the Best Song Academy Award with lyricist Paul Williams for the film's signature tune, "Evergreen."

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Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal re-teamed for the romantic comedy "The Main Event" (1979), about a woman who finds herself the promoter of a not-terribly-promising boxer.

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Gene Hackman and Barbra Streisand in "All Night Long" (1981), a comedy in which a woman finds herself in a triangle between a young man (played by Dennis Quaid) and his father (Hackman).

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Barbra Streisand's first film in the director's chair was "Yentl" (1983), inspired by the Isaac Bashevis Singer story of a young Jewish girl who impersonates a boy in order to study the Torah. Co-starring Oscar nominee Amy Irving and Mandy Patinkin, "Yentl" used songs to relate the young "man" 's inner life, struggles with cultural limitations, and dreams of breaking down gender barriers.

The film won an Oscar for Best Song Score (by Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman), and received two Best Song nominations as well.

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In the 1987 drama "Nuts," based on a play by Tom Topor, Barbra Streisand plays a call girl who must prove herself sane or face incarceration in a mental institution after murdering a client. Richard Dreyfuss co-starred.

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Nick Nolte played a South Carolina football coach who becomes involved with his suicidal sister's psychiatrist, played by Barbra Streisand, in the drama "The Prince of Tides" (1991), based on the Pat Conroy novel. The film was Streisand's second as a director.

The movie was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, but not Best Director, prompting accusations of bias on the part of the Academy's Directors Branch.

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Barbra Streisand on the set of her second film as director, "The Prince of Tides."

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Based on a 1958 French film, the romantic comedy-drama "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (1996) starred Barbra Streisand and Jeff Bridges as a couple who are forced to overcome mammoth impediments to intimacy. It was Streisand's third time in the director's chair, and it was co-star Lauren Bacall's first time as an Oscar nominee, playing Streisand's domineering mother.

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Robert Redford embraces his "Way We Were" co-star Barbra Streisand after receiving an Honorary Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, during the 74th Annual Academy Awards, Sunday March 24, 2002.

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After an eight-year absence, Streisand returned to the movie screen in the 2004 comedy, "Meet the Fockers." She played Ben Stiller's mother, Roz Focker, a sex therapist.

Streisand told a British interviewer that she sprained both thumbs while filming a scene in which she gave a back rub to Robert De Niro.

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Barbra Streisand poses with her husband James Brolin during the 77th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., on Sunday, February 27, 2005.

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Kathryn Bigelow, winner of the Best Director Oscar for "The Hurt Locker," and presenter Barbara Streisand are seen backstage during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., on Sunday, March 7, 2010.

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Barbra Streisand also starred in a road movie, playing the mother of Seth Rogan in the 2012 comedy, "The Guilt Trip."

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Barbra Streisand performs the theme song of the film "The Way We Were," during a memorial tribute to the late composer Marvin Hamlisch, at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, Calif., February 24, 2013.

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Barbra Streisand performs the theme song of the film "The Way We Were," during a memorial tribute to the late composer Marvin Hamlisch, at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, Calif., February 24, 2013.

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The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents its 40th annual Chaplin Award to Barbra Streisand on Monday, April 22, 2013, at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City.